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DrDan


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It seems to me with drought projecting into the future, it doesn't make sense to see the current release pattern.  I understand that demand drives the releases but it seems shortsighted...

The median release for today should be ~270 and here we are at 360!

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There goes the storage for the future.... Of course if Berryessa holds 1.6 million acre-feet, we are ~56% capacity.  I don't think there is significant inflow at this point.

 

 

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Anyone else think this is shortsighted or maybe it's just pracgmatic.

 

Or maybe I'm just frustrated that I can't access many of the spots I like to fish biggrin



-- Edited by drdan on Tuesday 7th of October 2014 12:39:03 PM

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Flows are managed against the demand of contracted customers and the responsibility of SID to meet those. Thus the fluctuations cay to day now. The last time I checked, SCWA provides 256000 acre feet. That is 15% of the lake at full capacity. THEORETICALLY would take 6 years to empty Berryessa at that rate with 0 rain.



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